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Zinky boys : Soviet voices from the Afghanistan war by Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948- author, Whitby, Julia, translator; Whitby, Robin, translator; Heinemann, Larry, writer of introduction; Translation of: Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948- T͡Sinkovye malʹchiki is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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xix, 197 pages ; 25 cm, From 1979 to 1989, a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties-- and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. In Zinky Boys journalist Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the tragic history of the Afghanistan War. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam-- a resemblance that Larry Heinemann describes movingly in his introduction to the book, providing American readers with an often uncomfortably intimate connection to a war that may have seemed very remote to us. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term \"Zinky Boys\"), while the State denied the very existence of the conflict; even today the radically altered Soviet society continues to reject the memory of the \"Soviet Vietnam.\" Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR-- it was called by reviewers there a \"slanderous piece of fantasy\" and part of a \"hysterical chorus of malign attacks\"--Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and pros
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- Author
- Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948- author, Whitby, Julia, translator; Whitby, Robin, translator; Heinemann, Larry, writer of introduction; Translation of: Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948- T͡Sinkovye malʹchiki
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393034158
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, Biography
- Rating
- 4.33 / 5 (807 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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